At Osbornes Flat Primary School, the wellbeing of our students and staff is our top priority.
We care about student and family connectedness to school and their peers, trust and relationships..
Our school hosts a range of wellbeing activities and programs, to ensure our students are equipped with the specific strategies that they need to succeed.
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We explicitly teach our students about emotional regulation and the tools that they will need to become emotionally literate human beings.
One of the tools we use to do this is the Murdoch Children’s Emotional Scale.
All staff at Osbornes Flat Primary School use consistent language to support students in maintaining a ‘good’ emotional state. This means that we work with the individual student to unpack the scale and create a bank of strategies that they can use to return to a ‘good’ emotional state.
When students are in a good emotional state, learning can optimised.
Our staff utilise a tiered system of support to enable all of our students to access learning tasks and experiences.
These supports are tailored to the individual student, as a result of a collaborative effort between school staff and any relevant professional advice.
Our school staff meet fortnightly to case manage our students in their required supports on a fortnightly basis, using the Social, Academic and Emotional Behaviour Risk Screener (SAEBRs) tool. Students are identified as requiring a particular tier of support and we then actively monitor and adjust our practices in relation to the students changing profile.
Our School Wide Tiered Behaviour Response clearly lays out for our students the expected behaviours of our school and those behaviours that are not acceptable. Being an School Wide Positive Behaviour Support School (SWPBS), we work closely with our students and their families to ensure that our school as much as physically possible, remains distraction free and a calm place conducive to learning.
Tier 3: Only for the Few supports are developed alongside the student’s family, and it may be necessary for specialist external professionals to be involved at the school level. Students falling into this tiered level of support require careful management and significant adjustments to their normal school program. Our school works closely with these students and their families, often on a weekly basis.
Osbornes Flat Primary implements the CASEA program developed by the Royal Children’s Hospital, funded by the Mental Health branch of the Victorian Government’s Department of Human Services, and supported by the Victorian Department of Education and Training and other community organisations.
Interventions for behaviour problems can be successful if they are coordinated/aimed at multiple domains of dysfunction and delivered over extended periods. Intervention should be a multi-system and aim to target the child, parent, family and school.
Other strategies we use at Osbornes Flat Primary School to build relationships and connections; trust and a genuinely caring environment include: